Have You Ever Had One Of Those Sundays...

Where you were sure the preacher looked straight into your heart and preached to you?

Yesterday was that day.

Let me start with a bit of scripture:

1 Corinthians 13

New International Version (NIV)

Chapter 13 

 1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.  

² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.  

³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 

⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  

⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  

⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.  

⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part,  

¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 

¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.  

¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.


What a huge perspective!


The greatest of these is love.  

God loves me no matter what my faults are and even if no one else would.  

This post means nothing... 

Why am I worried about a few people that get their grins and giggles by their childhood ways?

I look at my reflection in the mirror and other than a few smudges, I am pretty darned proud of who I have become despite where I started.

I have made mistakes along the way, I have learned as I traveled and I can be honest with myself and others - and I don't have to hide a thing or lie about a thing.

Because I am happy where I am.  

I have faith, I have hope and I have love.

The greatest of these is love. 


And even as lost as I am,  God shows me in many ways I am loved... every single day.

Not everyone has to love me.  They obviously don't even have to like me.

And I am ok with that.  That is their choice - and their loss.

The greatest of these is love. 


Unconditional love.